After Shimon Peres is defeated in the re-election for Labor Party leader, Labor withdraws from Sharon’s governing coalition, causing Sharon to ask the President to dissolve the government. Then Sharon bolts from his Likud Party and forms a new party, Kadima, attracting many leading politicians to his new standard of unilateral withdrawal from Gaza.
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